Randall Slavin
Randall Slavin was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. After asking the heavens for career guidance while driving on a rainy Hollywood street he lost control of his car and slammed into the side of a camera shop. This was as good a sign as any. His work has since appeared in GQ, Rolling Stone, Black Tail, and Esquire. Mr. Slavin is currently working on hi first solo exhibit to be presented in 2010.

Francine Champagne
President of Vision Model Management, Francine Champagne utilizes her vast network of professional relationships, hands-on management skills and a keen eye for talent in positioning her company as the leader in the modeling industry. Champagne has forged the careers of some of the industry’s most well-known faces, including Cameron Diaz, Tyra Banks, and many others who have attained lucrative acting careers.

Tony Bowls
Tony Bowls is the official designer of the Miss California USA Pageant with twenty years of experience. He owned and managed his own retail store for twelve years where he actively promoted and sold formalwear collections. Tony has now implemented his fresh innovative ideas and couture designs in not only the world of pageantry but in Prom and social occasion thru his “Tony Bowls/Mon  Cheri”collections with retailers worldwide.

David Fendrick
David Fendrick serves as Chief Operating Officer for the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, overseeing operations at the Four-Diamond Agua Caliente Casino, Resort, Spa in Rancho Mirage and the legendary Spa Resort Casino in downtown Palm Springs, California. He most recently led the efforts in the grand opening of Agua Caliente’s Four- Diamond resort and The Show, the property’s spectacular concert theatre.

Hill Harper
Hill currently stars on CSI: NY, playing Dr. Hawkes. He is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Brown University and earned graduate degrees in Law and Public Administration from Harvard University. In 2006, Hill wrote the New York Times bestselling book, Letters to a Young Brother, to provide encouragement and guidance to young Black men who are still trying to find their way. Most recently, Hill has authored The Conversation, an honest dialogue Addressing male and female relationships.

Lu Parker
Lu Parker is a multi-faceted talent. She is a journalist, actress, author, former Miss USA, and a former teacher. As an Emmy Award winning journalist, you can find her anchoring and reporting the news in Los Angeles, California on KTLA. She has co-hosted national shows, and has interviewed such names as Kanye West, Matt Damon, Eva Longoria, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oscar De La Hoya, and Bill Cosby. In November 2008, Lu reported live from the Democratic Headquarters in Los Angeles as Barack Obama was elected.

Prior to arriving in Los Angeles, Lu earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the College of Charleston, and a Master of Arts Degree in Education from The Citadel. While teaching high school English, she entered and won both Miss South Carolina USA, and Miss USA in 1994. In the Miss Universe Pageant that year, she placed 4th among 81 contestants from around the world. Her pageant expertise afforded her the opportunity to write Catching the Crown: The Source for Pageant Competition. Fans and pageant enthusiasts can purchase the popular book at www.amazon.com.

Dr. Frank Ryan
Dr. Ryan, famous for his celebrity clientele and for his nonprofit Bony Pony Ranch Foundation, is also the plastic surgeon for boxer Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions. Dr Ryan has performed
surgery on numerous television shows, including A & E’s Gene Simmons Family Jewels, VH-1’s My Fair Brady, E!’s Girls Next Door, Discovery Health Channel’s Before and After and Oxygen’s Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. He famously performed breast augmentation and rhinoplasty on The Hills’ Heidi Montag.

Laura Boersma
Since her childhood, Laura Boersma has worked in theatre, organized events, and volunteered in her community. Laura put those skills to use forming Santa Monica based commercial production company Steele Films in the summer of 2000. Since then, Laura has produced a wide variety of live action and animated commercials for clients such as Movie-Tickets.com, Hallmark, The Game Show Network, and more.

John Stewart Muller
John Stewart Muller began making films at the age of seven. Experimental, artistic and incredibly personal, his past work helped hone his creative skills allowing him to pursue a career as a highly-recognized film director. John has directed, written, and produced many award-winning works around the country. His recent feature film "Fling" starring Brandon Routh enjoyed a limited theatrical release and is now available on DVD and currently airing on Showtime and TMC.

Matt Vengrin
Matt Vengrin is one of the hottest rising stars of Poker. The 24 year-old poker pro has won over $2 million dollars in on and off line tournaments in just under 2 years. In June 2009 Matt signed with AbsolutePoker.Net, becoming one of the company’s marquee professional players on the industry leading poker site. Matt currently resides in both Los Angles and Las Vegas.

Drew Sidora
A series regular on the sitcom The Game, Sidora also landed a recurring role on That’s So Raven and guest starred on Without A Trace, What I Like About You, and Girlfriends. Her earlier film credits include Never Die Alone, White Chicks, and Wild Hogs, starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, William H. Macy and Martin Lawrence. She also starred along side of Vivica A. Foxx in Screen Gems’ Motives II. In addition, Drew received rave reviews for her performance in last years hit Disney feature Step Up.

Gloria Zigner
Public relations guru Gloria Zigner is known for her energy, creativity and personal database. Society editor of Orange Coast Magazine for 17 years, she is also founder and producer of the CHOC Follies, an original musical comedy featuring 100 Orange County business, civic and society leaders acting, singing, dancing to raise money for Children’s Hospital of Orange County. To date the popular show has netted over $4.5 million. In addition, she maintains a thriving PR practice.

Shandi Finnessey
During the most watched Miss USA® competition in six years, Shandi Finnessey was crowned Miss USA® 2004. The 26-yearold from was the first-ever Miss Missouri USA to be crowned Miss USA®. Dedicated to helping children and people with disabilities, Finnessey works to promote inclusion of individuals with mental challenges. One of her proudest achievements was publishing a children’s book on this very subject titled “The Furrtails.”

Francine Champagne
President of Vision Model Management, Francine Champagne utilizes her vast network of professional relationships, hands-on management skills and a keen eye for talent in positioning her company as the leader in the modeling industry. Champagne has forged the careers of some of the industry’s most well-known faces, including Cameron Diaz, Tyra Banks, and many others who have attained lucrative acting careers.

 
Erika Shay
Erika Shay has assisted in launching the careers of numerous pageant contestants as a Los Angelesbased Casting Director, placing contestants on shows on every major network. At the age of twenty, she became New York University's youngest Valedictory graduate. She spent her college years working in the Miss Universe Organization offices in New York City and represented Pennsylvania in the 1995 Miss Teen USA pageant. Erika was a contestant on CBS's Emmy Award-winning The Amazing Race before beginning an occupation in television that has given her the privilege of regularly traveling
the world.

Dennis Frentsos
Dennis Frentsos is a graduate of New York University's prestigious Stern School of Business and currently works as an equities trader for a Wall Street firm in Los Angeles. Dennis is also a certified trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine and has worked as a personal trainer at the top fitness facilities in Manhattan. Dennis appeared as a contestant on CBS's Emmy-award
winning series, "The Amazing Race" and was featured on NBC as the Greek Olympic torchbearer in the Olympic promos and opening ceremonies.

Heath Freeman
Heath Freeman studied acting and film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and later in the BFA acting program at The University of Texas at Austin. After school and a subsequent move to Los Angeles to pursue acting, Heath landed the lead in his first movie The Painting. A series of television roles followed on ER, Nancy Drew, NCIS, Medical Investigation, Bones,and Without a Trace as well as the role of Jack in the world premier of "Making It" at the South Coast Repertory Theater. Other theater credits include heading up the cast of "All My Sons" as Chris Keller at theGeffen Theater. His recent role on The Closer got the attention of Steven Bochco who created a recurring role for Heath on his new hit show Raising the Bar. Heath will make his screenwriting and producing debut with the spring release of Skateland starring Ashley Greene(Twilight).

Annie Roberts
Annie Roberts has been the Casting Director for E! Entertainment Television for seven years. She has cast hosts and experts for over 150 pilots and series including The Soup, E! News, Chelsea Lately, The Daily 10, The Dish, Fashion Police and Clean House. Along with discovering talent for E! and its sister networks, she also contributes to the development of new series.

Ward Roberts
Ward Roberts is actor and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. He has appeared in numerous films & television shows, including N.C.I.S., MANswers for Spike TV, and CSI:NY. He can currently be seen starring in the award winning films LO and SICK PUPPY now playing the international festival circuit. His first feature as writer & director, Little Big Top, was released last year and he is currently in development on a variety of projects in the Hollywood realm.